Samuel v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 580 · 1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2000
5 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Rothman v. Hospital Service · Hairston v. R & R Apartments · Smith v. Anchor Building Corp. · Sanborn v. Wagner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provided, (t)hat the said plaintiff... is not financially able to assume said attorney’s fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.